Table manners

There’s a lot of advice on the web about table manners in France, many of them implying there’s a lot of formality. Possibly that’s true, I guess I just don’t move in those circles! My own experience has been much more of informality, particularly for the kids.
Now, in Ireland, cooked school dinners don’t exist. For [...]

Fish and chips

Back at my blog after an outing. Chris and I were away a whole 30 hours, our first time leaving the farm together, and our first child-free outing since Caiti was small!
We went to Mayenne, to another Angling Lines fishing holiday venue, Oakview Lake, run by Martin and Shirley Barker, to witness fish being microchipped. [...]

In my absence, a good book to read

I’m not here! Hopefully this post has appeared as if by magic in my blog – it was scheduled to. Let’s hope it worked. Chris and I have abandoned the farm and the family for a night away and a morning doing something very interesting, which I’ll tell you about tomorrow.
In the meantime, a book [...]

A long shot

I’m the odd one out in the family in that I’m the only non-shooter. The other four are all members of the Ste Sevère Fédération de Tir (shooting club). Ruadhri, who’s 9, started going at the end of last year. I won’t be joining them. I’m not scared of firing a gun, it just doesn’t [...]